Spectacular German Metro Station is Made From Glowing Glass Blocks

This impressive new subway station in Leipzig, Germany includes a 141-meter-long and 20-meter-wide concourse made from illuminated glass blocks. The Wilhelm-Leuschner-Platz S-Bahn station was designed by Swiss architect Max Dudler, who won a design competition for the 17.5 million Euro project in 1997. The city of around 520,000 residents (located 93 miles south of Berlin in the federal state of Saxony) awarded Dudler with its architecture award for his station design.

The back-lit glass blocks are arranged in groups and set into the concrete framework the entire length of the walls and ceiling. “The seemingly endless repetition of the same element in the course of the slightly curved, light-filled hall increases the sensation of the dimensions of this already large structure,” said the studio. The station’s namesake Wilhelm Leuschner was a social democrat who actively resisted the Nazis.